Scripting Wiki idea: Q&A page
Posted: 30.10.2005, 00:11
Despite my earlier reticence, I find that I'm warming to the idea of using the wiki now. I'm still a bit hesitant to change or add things so I'm going to bounce an idea off the people here first.
What I was thinking was to set up a Q&A page (Question and Answer). This wouldn't be a 'FAQ' but I think it might be similar to what Hank had in mind. The idea would be that there'd be a Questions page there that people could ask scripting questions on. I guess they can be detailed, but I'm initially envisaging relatively simple questions first. Then, if someone reading the Questions page sees something they can answer, they create an Answer page for that question. if any discussion/further questions/corrections are required on that specific topic then it should be hashed out on that Answer's discussion page, and the final answer should be updated as required based on that discussion on the Answer page itself (to avoid reading confusing conversations on the Answer page as something is discussed when you just want a solid answer on how to do something).
Thus, I could go on the Question page and ask "How do I use For loops?". This would sit there for a while til someone notices it and answers, and then they'd make a new wiki page with their answer (preferably with short complete scripts to copy/paste and use as demonstrations) and add a link to that page from the question itself.
I think this would make the pages a lot more useful - now experts would be able to directly answer specific questions asked on the wiki, and we can use that to build up a referrable knowledge base. Plus, it would IMO be more organised than the current discussion page on the Scripting page. If enough questions are asked/answered then we could also catalogue them and arrange them in terms of topic too.
Do people here think that would be worth setting up? We could even rearrange the current CelX Scripting Wiki to incorporate this.
What I was thinking was to set up a Q&A page (Question and Answer). This wouldn't be a 'FAQ' but I think it might be similar to what Hank had in mind. The idea would be that there'd be a Questions page there that people could ask scripting questions on. I guess they can be detailed, but I'm initially envisaging relatively simple questions first. Then, if someone reading the Questions page sees something they can answer, they create an Answer page for that question. if any discussion/further questions/corrections are required on that specific topic then it should be hashed out on that Answer's discussion page, and the final answer should be updated as required based on that discussion on the Answer page itself (to avoid reading confusing conversations on the Answer page as something is discussed when you just want a solid answer on how to do something).
Thus, I could go on the Question page and ask "How do I use For loops?". This would sit there for a while til someone notices it and answers, and then they'd make a new wiki page with their answer (preferably with short complete scripts to copy/paste and use as demonstrations) and add a link to that page from the question itself.
I think this would make the pages a lot more useful - now experts would be able to directly answer specific questions asked on the wiki, and we can use that to build up a referrable knowledge base. Plus, it would IMO be more organised than the current discussion page on the Scripting page. If enough questions are asked/answered then we could also catalogue them and arrange them in terms of topic too.
Do people here think that would be worth setting up? We could even rearrange the current CelX Scripting Wiki to incorporate this.
). The only thing that remains is whose responsibility would it be to transcribe the answer to the wiki? The original poster's? Or should there be a 'wikimaster' who is in charge of moving things over?
That is the way I suggested that the wiki be used for scripting questions: have all the back-and-forth what-if's and please-explains' hammered out here on the forum and them summarise on the wiki for others.